AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2245MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 260W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +1696%

45.98 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2023

Release Date

Mar 2012

Navi III

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1287 MHz

Base Clock

-

2245 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

20

5120

Shading Units

1280

320

TMUs

80

160

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

359.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

718.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

91.96 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

45.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

1437 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 31 XL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

260W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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